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Arrival

Play trailer 1:00 Poster for Arrival PG-13 2016 1h 56m Sci-Fi Mystery & Thriller Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.
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Arrival delivers a must-see experience for fans of thinking person's sci-fi that anchors its heady themes with genuinely affecting emotion and a terrific performance from Amy Adams.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses 08/25/2018
Arrival transcends the limitations that so often govern the less creative examples of the subgenre, instead using it as a loose conceptual foundation upon which to build a theoretically-informed examination of what precisely ... makes us human. Go to Full Review
Kristen Lopez Culturess 11/20/2017
Arrival couldn't have arrived (pun intended) at a better time. Go to Full Review
K. Austin Collins The Ringer 08/10/2017
I think of Arrival in terms of color: the milky grays of the clouds rolling over the Montana plain; the bright blue of computer screens bouncing off the gray tents on the makeshift army compound. Go to Full Review
JD Duran InSession Film 08/08/2024
The film works as a powerful allegory for how we try to decode and interpret the tragedies of our lives. Go to Full Review
Ankit Ojha Cinema Elite 07/09/2024
4.5/5
Without spoiling too much, let’s just say Villeneuve and Heisserer use the Kuleshov effect to turn the non-linear storytelling of “Arrival” from a gimmick to an indispensable part of the film. Go to Full Review
Anthony McGlynn Vague Visages 02/06/2024
Arrival is a work that resents the necessity of violence. However, the film ditches some of the meditative qualities of the bleakness-to-idealism dialectic of the album in favor of making a cold hard stand against war and those who clamour for it. Go to Full Review
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Jonathan F 02/05/2022 Extremely short-paced, felt like most of the movie was empty without a real driving story. I would have hoped for more action. See more Katie D 03/15/2021 An amazing film! very well-done, thought-provoking, entertaining and unpredictable. my only complaint is about the loud horn blasts that accompany so many science fiction movie scenes - unnecessary, unrealistic and distracting! other than that it was awesome! See more Jordyn S. @JordynSicard 3d Perfect movie. Acting, visuals, story. Then twists were perfect and every scene was important. It showed society as a whole and what something like this would do to the world. See more Patrick S @PatrickStruik 6d One of the most beautiful sci fi movies ever made. See more Laurens R @ubercomplicated 6d What a cool premise, but ultimately not well thought through and executed. This film was actually shown as an example in class, and I gotta say, the opening was phenomenally bad. The first 10 minutes of the movie, we, the audience, is tortured through scenes with characters who have not yet won our sympathy, but with whom we are supposed to sympathize anyway. I don’t want to see someone's backstory when I don’t care about them yet. The entire opening is rather lazy, not just in writing, but also in shooting. The camerawork is awful here, often times pseudo-experimental, resulting in boring shots. It really is a bummer, because the movie sounds so cool. Until you watch it. At the very least they could have tried to represent the sci-fi and linguistic elements more accurately, instead of the movie nonsense with loads of assumptions. See more Anderson A @Anderson47474 Dec 3 Um filme cativante e genial ao mesmo tempo, atuação exuberante da Amy e um plot muito bem feito e até mesmo bem explicado. Filmasso Nota 9.7 See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Producer
Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, David Linde
Screenwriter
Eric Heisserer
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
21 Laps Entertainment, Lava Bear Films, FilmNation
Rating
PG-13 (Brief Strong Language)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 11, 2016, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jan 27, 2017
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 31, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$100.5M
Runtime
1h 56m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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